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Gerryflappers. For a seven-year period, inaugurated by Conductor Leopold Damrosch, not a word of anything but German was heard in the house. Wagner was performed in thunderous repetition, and the greatest soprano of the period, Lilli Lehmann, sang Carmen in German in her Met debut. But during the Met's "Golden Age of Song," at the turn of the century, Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Emma Eames, Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, et al. educated their audiences to hear Italian and French operas sung in their original languages. Still, educated or not, Guest Star Adelina Patti could stop...
Meanwhile, the Democrats, with too many candidates, were having their own problems. Jim Farley and state commerce commissioner Edward Dickinson were eliminated early. Carmine DeSapio, boss of Tammany Hall, supported New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan, while Harriman and Mayor Wagner held out for a "more liberal" man, either former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter or former AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray. In the ensuing power struggle, DeSapio won, with the aid of Buffalo Democratic leader Peter Crotty; Crotty was promptly rewarded with the nomination for Attorney General...
...ballerina and the male dancer lay side by side on the couch while the music of Wagner's Liebestod thundered out of the pit. First one rolled off the couch, then the other. Gropingly, they each raised a hand, managed to clasp them. On that grotesquely romantic note, the curtain fell last week on one of five works new to the American Ballet Theatre in its fall season at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. The ballet: Herbert Ross's Tristan...
...Singers are the first reported family in the world with three children so afflicted-which may be the most important clue yet to endocardial fibro-elastosis. One theory so far: it begins developing in the fetus, though nobody knows why. The Singer family recurrence, says Dr. Bernard M. Wagner, a top Seattle heart specialist, "suggests lethal genes, a genetic mutant. This may be a key family in our study." For the stricken Singers last week, it was little comfort, but all they...
...Playing in the dead-ball era, the National League's late Honus Wagner of Pittsburgh, the greatest all-round shortstop, had a lifetime batting average of .329 (1897-1917), but never hit more than 10 homers in a single season...